This EP fearlessly dives into the complexities of connection and betrayal, offering an unfiltered critique of false friendships. Joining IMJUDAS in this introspective exploration are trusted collaborators, who elevate the EP with an array of electrifying remixes: PEOPLE THEATRE adds a nostalgic, dreamy electro-pop touch to “StJudas”, AIBOFORCEN transforms the title track with cinematic, vocoded future-pop flair, IMPLANT injects their signature industrial grit and chaotic cadence and OK LION! amplifies the electro-rock groove for an explosive finish.

With its evocative title “I Love You Go Away,” the EP serves as a defiant anthem against emotional exploitation and shallow relationships. “Away with the psychic vampires, away with the profiteers, away with those who don’t love you for who you truly are”, declares IMJUDAS.

As the solo project of Maxx Maryan (from Electro-Goth/Pop Metal duo HELALYN FLOWERS), IMJUDAS ventures deep into Dark Pop, Post-Punk, and Cold Wave territories. With echoes of THE SOFT MOON, FAITH & THE MUSE, GARY NUMAN, and DEPECHE MODE, this release solidifies IMJUDAS as a powerful voice in the darker realms of electronic music.

Prepare to embrace the contradictions – “I Love You Go Away” is out now!

“Go Away” – official lyric video

“I Love You” – static video

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Diving into emotional turmoil, “Viscerheart” explores love, suffering, obsession, and self-discovery, breaking down narrative barriers. Described as ‘Electro-synth Pop with a Goth soul,’ IMJUDAS fearlessly embraces vulnerability, inviting listeners on a captivating journey through human emotions.

The title holds deep significance, reflecting the emotional journey woven through dark pop masterpieces. IMJUDAS’ unique blend of synth pop, dark wave, and post punk sets him apart in the genre, creating a mesmerizing fusion.

With standout vocals, IMJUDAS combines influences from DEPECHE MODE and GARY NUMAN to modern Electro in tracks like “Tazebao” and “Go Away”. The album showcases his sonic evolution, culminating in the infectious Dark Pop / Post-Punk / Cold-Wave anthem, “I Love You”.

“Viscerheart” pushes sound boundaries, drawing inspiration from EDM/Dance-Pop and venturing into sonic abstraction. This meticulously crafted production features intricate instrumentation, driving basslines, and toxic liquid wave-y guitars, creating a lush dark and polished sonic palette.

IMJUDAS invites music enthusiasts on a hauntingly beautiful sonic and human journey. With crystal-clear production, heartfelt lyricism, and infectious melodies, “Viscerheart” resonates as a testament to IMJUDAS’ artistic vocation.

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“StJudas” indeed unfolds as a touching piano-driven composition, where melancholy and profound questions intertwine. The stripped-down and raw structure of the song allows the heartfelt chords of the piano to shine, creating an intimate atmosphere that resonates with the listener’s soul. And supported by filtered drum grooves, the vocals of Maxx Maryan take center stage, commanding attention with their powerful and emotive delivery.

The combination of Maxx’s voice and the musical arrangement evokes a sense of nostalgia, reminiscent of the sweet bitterness found in 80s ballads like “The Power Of Love” and the melodic morbidity of DEPECHE MODE’s “Black Celebration”, or even early TALK TALK’s new romantic hits. And IMJUDAS’ authentic and darkish cover version of THE CURE’s mega hit “Boys Don’t Cry” comes and wraps it up in pure beauty and shimmering simplicity.

This EP confirms that the forthcoming new album of IMJUDAS “Viscerheart” will offer us stunning melancholic 80s Pop-Wave Post-Punk electric moments that will please fans of DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN and other WIRE…

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Released as a FREE download song, “I Love You” will grab on you in no time with its sing-along DEPECHE MODE-esque chorus, early Colin Newman/WIRE vibes, the electric touch of a GARY NUMAN and that melancholic 80s Pop-Wave Post-Punk feel overall.

“I Love You” announces a straight dark pop album but let’s hear what “Viscerheart” will bring us! Meanwhile enjoy this addictive tune whose love it refers to allows itself to blur the boundaries between its affirmation and its questioning, as if to indicate a dark side of love, the one that proceeds unconsciously from our selfishness…

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If rising multi-talented artist MADIL HARDIS offers a very touching dark ethereal version of “People Of The Blame”, Swedish duo OCTOLAB turns it into an abrasive upbeat mix featuring female backings by their sensual singer Arielle Andersson while New-York-based NEIKKA RPM diva gives an unexpected revolted break beat dimension to the excellent “Ritual”.

IMJUDAS fans will also enjoy discovering earlier versions taken from the band’s very first 2016 demo which was only privately circulated among very few insiders in the scene…

ImJudas and YouAreToo…

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The addictive romantic synth rock-wave ballad “So Untrue” is here featured in a floating and introspective psych-wave version by Phil of Belgium’s cult ethereal darkwave band THE BREATH OF LIFE while the German ELEKTROSTAUB mix mutated this song into a carrying future pop club anthem!

IMJUDAS fans will also enjoy discovering earlier versions taken from the band’s very first 2016 demo which was only privately circulated among very few insiders in the scene…

ImJudas and YouAreToo…

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IMJUDAS excels in playing with contrasts and enjoys betraying the catchiness of his synthetic lines by interrupting them with sharp incisive guitar riffs or plaintive loud vocals, while other catchy and highly addictive choruses set his more disturbing and almost chaotic songs in an almost angelic wafting cocoon. IMJUDAS personifies that necessary evil we all wear on our left shoulder and who brings us into that so comfortable moonlight shadow. With this stunning album, IMJUDAS serves us absolute Punk Wave for abandoned souls in amusement parks where the loud and noisy stereo could play cult 80’s songs from KILLING JOKE, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, THE CLASH or yet PROPAGANDA to set the tone.

Deeply rooted in the imagery and aesthetics of the New Wave movement, in the transformation of David Bowie and in the gender-bender attitude of Pete Burns and Boy George, in the grotesque-sensual limitation of Marilyn Manson, IMJUDAS declares itself “Man, Woman and Animal at the same time!”.

Conceptually based on inner sense of alienation, appealing surrealistic and esoteric themes, this “Yrjudas” album shines by its shimmering inner darkness and plunges you into tearful melancholy with its entertaining light melodies. From the obsessive beat and dark menacing guitars of “Outcast” to the romantic bittersweet rock-wave ballad “So Untrue” through the tragic love-song “Lost Boy” or the helter skelter flavor of “There’s A Stranger In Your House”, IMJUDAS unfolds such a highly impacting emotionally charged debut that it can’t leave you unaffected.

The first pressing of this album is a limited double-CD digipak holding the bonus album “Via Negativa” by Maxx Maryan’s pre-IMJUDAS summoning project BLACK SHINE FEVER, some sort of dark goth rock satellite project reminiscent of both CHRISTIAN DEATH and legends of death metal like Quorthon and his unmatched BATHORY. This high-energy 12-tracker “Via Negativa” is caustic, obscure, almost frenetic and stylishly explains where IMJUDAS is coming from and heading to: it is burning dark wave on the verge of neural collapse.

An uplifting sonic experience from its unconscious genesis to its twisted present and potential dystopian future! ImJudas and YouAreToo…

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Conceptually based on inner sense of alienation, appealing surrealistic and esoteric themes, this project carries us through a shady, cinematically ‘black and white’ world deeply rooted in the early 80’s New Wave movement and aesthetic where darkness and melancholy merge with the irreverent attitude of hedonistic abrasive colourful Dance Rock.

With “Ritual”, a true hymn to freedom, IMJUDAS plunge us in an early 80’s noir and moody romantic atmosphere evoking the sensual synth minimalism of PROPAGANDA, the poignant expressive and echoing vocals of GARY NUMAN, the dynamic liquid guitars of KILLING JOKE and the addictive melodies of DEPECHE MODE.

We then assist to the unexpected multiple transformations of this stunning post punk / darkwave hit once it gets a vintage mechanical synth treatment by electro master 808.DOT.POP, before taking a minimal electro techno pop trip with REICHSFEIND before receiving a late 80’s break beat hip hop techno dancefloor treatment by rising-fame act CUBIC, until the legendary German dark elektro act ACYLUM give it a sinister and almost morbid dimension. A mindboggling kaleidoscope of sound!

We will also notice the groovy synth B-track “So Untrue” which could have been the single title-song actually, featured here in a magnificent vibrating industrial pop remix by AIBOFORCEN with lush additional female vocals by nobody else but HELALYN FLOWERS’ very own Noemi Aurora.

This is Punk Wave for abandoned souls in amusement parks. ImJudas and YouAreToo…

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“Kamikaze Angel” is a true industrial pop anthem bound to generate hi-energy vibes on the dancefloors thanks to its explosive synth arrangements, its hammering martial beats, its powerful balance between guitars and machines, and the contagious melodic force of Noemi’s female vocals. This new club hit then receives some four different readings by fully skilled acts, like the Italian Aggrotech coven Adam Kult, German synth-pop revelation Six Faces (with a remix produced and mixed by Mario Ruhlicke, acclaimed producer from the Berlin based Fear In Motion – Blutengel, Massive Ego…), the brave and challenging Funksista, the Funk alter ego of vicious electro club-shakers Junksista, and long-time label mates Psy’aviah, with a tortured version that pleasantly plays with fire by soiling a synth-pop carpet with sci-fi-ed fx stabs…

And that’s not all folks! To show you that their forthcoming new album “Nyctophilia” will definitely be a perfect candidate for being elected one of the best albums of this new year 2018, the HELALYN FLOWERS duo also reveals a second brand new song with “Beyond” showcasing the more synth pop catchy side of the band’s classic sound-style, fusing catchy and intense vocal lines with viral electronic grooves, adrenaline-pumping electro-rock choruses and upbeat industrial rhythm patterns.

A 6-track new EP gathering all the best ingredients that made our HELALYN FLOWERS grow and bloom on the underground electro/rock – industrial/metal scene throughout their impressive music repertoire and gives us a delicious sonic appetizer for what is yet to come… They definitely wet our appetite for more. Consume it loud and without any moderation.

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IMJUDAS is the noir dyed electro-pop and dark dance solo-project from Italian artist maXX, founding member and male half of the infamous cult duo HELALYN FLOWERS. Conceptually based on inner sense of alienation, appealing surrealistic and esoteric themes, this project carries us in a shady, cinematically ‘black and white’ world deeply rooted in the early 80’s New Wave movement and aesthetic. 

It is surrounded with the lurking shadows of cult artists like Alan Wilder (DEPECHE MODE), David Bowie, Jaz Coleman (KILLING JOKE), Gary Numan, Marc Almond (SOFT CELL), Robert Smith (THE CURE) or yet Gavin Friday (VIRGIN PRUNES) that maXX started shaping IMJUDAS’ stylistic sound identity. 

Dramatic, epic and electric, “Tulpa” is the perfect tune to discover IMJUDAS! Sinister and addictive, groovy and darkish, its dramatic vocals perfectly fit the dynamic electro sequences and its overall complex and unpredictable song structure. On the other hand, “’Without Us You Are Nothing” reveals a more straightforward songwriting approach evoking the tones of a spoiled wave electro-disco-glam with a wink to Gary Numan crowned by sexy soulful female backings by n0emi Aurora (HELALYN FLOWERS’ frontwoman).

This is nu-wave synth pop at its best! DJ’s will also enjoy spinning the dancefloor mix of the title track by PEOPLE THEATRE, the old-school EBM remake by German label-mates AD:KEY or yet the incisive electro industrial version by London-based veteran INERTIA. 

Ready for the next crusade? With the self-titled debut album “Imjudas” coming out in 2018! 

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